The 1933 corporate plot to take over U.S. democracy

We're not kidding. Watch this excerpt from a BBC documentary about how CEOs and bankers tried to enlist a Marine general to lead a coup against President Franklin Roosevelt. (Hat tip to Jesse's Cafe Americain.)

If you aren't frightened yet by what's happening to working people in America today, this will scare the pants off of you.

Watch the whole thing here.